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Update: KSP Searching for Missing Owensboro Pilot

Date of News Release: 06/01/2016

(FALLS OF ROUGH, KY) -- The pilot's body has been removed from the plane by the Hancock County Coroner and is en route to Louisville for an autopsy tomorrow morning. We are unable to positively confirm the body to be Robert Dalzell; however, the family has been notified of our findings.

The wreckage is very deep in the woods and is very difficult to get to.

The FAA will be alongside KSP detectives at the autopsy and the crash site.

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Update: KSP Searching for Missing Owensboro Pilot

Date of News Release: 06/01/2016

(FALLS OF ROUGH, KY) -- Kentucky State Police detectives can confirm the debris spotted from a helicopter is the plane that has been reported missing. It was located in thick woods roughly two miles off Hopewell Church Road in the Fordsville community (Hancock County).

FAA will be on-scene tomorrow to help the Kentucky State Police investigate the wreckage.

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KSP Searching for Missing Owensboro Pilot

Date of News Release: 05/31/2016

Robert C. Dalzell Jr

(FALLS OF ROUGH, KY) -- Kentucky State Police and Civil Air Patrol are actively looking for a missing Owensboro airplane and pilot.

Troopers say Robert C. Dalzell Jr, 70 of Owensboro, left the Owensboro Regional Airport yesterday (5-30-2016) around 9:10am. He successfully landed at Falls of Rough, (Grayson Co) KY airport at 9:45am. Dalzell Jr. then departed Falls of Rough airport at 11:20am and never returned to the Owensboro airport.

Kentucky State Police say his last cell phone activity ping was at 11:32am and was within five miles of the Falls of Rough airport.

Robert C. Dalzell Jr.

70 years old

White Male

5'05"

175 pounds

Grey hair

Hazel eyes

2012 Green Aero Criquet Bogota fixed wing plane. Tail number N429BB.

Robert C. Dalzell Jr Plane

Civil Air Patrol currently has two airplanes searching from Owensboro to Falls of Rough. We respectfully ask all those who live, work, farm or hunt around Falls of Rough to be extra vigilant.